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What's the difference between SNO-T and SNO-M ?

If the T stands for Tropical, what does the M stand for, Marine ?

Thank you,
Courtney



Alexandre Eremenko wrote:

> Jared
> mentioned the grease and Freiberger sextants,
> so I want to ask those who have experience with
> Freibergers and SNO-Ts:
>
> Do you ever disassemble the drum?
> Does it need inside cleaning?
> A strange-looking wrench needed for this comes as a standard
> accessory.
>
> I am somewhat afraid to do this: the instruction manual
> says: never disassemble the sextant.
> But it also mentions periodic maintenance is a special shop:-)
>
> In general, I don't see what is the purpose of this
> enclosed drum. If it is to keep the worm assembly clean,
> I would rather make is visible and accessible for
> cleaning, as in most sextants.
>
> By the way, SNO-T comes with a bottle of oil and the manual
> gives the precise description of this oil (some
> Soviet standard) and also says:
> a substitute can be "Aeroshell Fluid 12"
> manufactured by Shell.
>
> Does anyone know what is this?
>
>
>>suppose that if the standard Soviet sextants
>>were assembled with a grease
>>that would not freeze up in Arctic use,
>>that grease might be unsuitable in
>>the tropics, i.e. migrating too much,
>>so something as slight as the grease
>>might be changed.
>>
>
> The manual describing my "Tropical" sextant says explicitly that
> it is suitable for "unlimited region of navigation".
>
>
>>Maybe the color of the
>>sextant?
>>
>
> Maybe. All SNO-T I've seen have the same color: grey.
> (And now we know that the T stands for "tropical").
> Unlike SMO-M which according to Joel comes in variety
> of colors (I see black, green, brown and grey on maurnavy site).
>
> Alex.
>
> On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Jared Sherman wrote:
>
>
>>curious to find out what the
>>Soviet Navy considered "tropical".
>>
>


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